Wildfire

Citation

(2005), "Wildfire", Disaster Prevention and Management, Vol. 14 No. 3. https://doi.org/10.1108/dpm.2005.07314cag.004

Wildfire

Preparing a Community Wildfire Protection Plan

www.safnet.org/policyandpress/cwpphandbook.pdfPreparing a Community Wildfire Protection Plan: A Handbook for Wildland-Urban Interface Communities is a concise, step-by-step guide to developing a community wildfire protection plan. It addresses issues such as who to involve in developing a plan, how to involve other interested parties, which elements to consider in assessing community risks and priorities, and how to develop a mitigation or protection plan to address those risks.

Forest Service’s Forest Encyclopedia Network

www.forestencyclopedia.net/Part of the Forest Service’s Forest Encyclopedia Network, this Encyclopedia of Southern Fire Science (ESFS) synthesizes volumes of scientific knowledge about fire science in the southern USA. ESFS delivers grounded information to field practitioners and the general public with viewer-navigated text, photos, graphics, plus a large bibliography and access to several fire science databases.

Joint Fire Science Program

http://jfsp.nifc.gov/The Joint Fire Science Program is a six-agency partnership established to address wildland fuels issues. Participating agencies are the Forest Service, Bureau of Indian Affairs, Bureau of Land Management, National Park Service, US Fish and Wildlife Service, and the US Geological Survey. The program provides wildland fire and fuels information and tools to specialists and managers who make wildland fuels management decisions.

FIREHouse

http://depts.washington.edu/nwfire/The Northwest Fire Research Clearinghouse (FIREHouse) is a web-based project providing data and documentation on fire science and technology relevant to Washington, Oregon, and Idaho. The goal is to provide “one-stop shopping” for resource managers, decision makers, scientists, students, and communities who want access to the results of efforts to understand and manage fire and fuels on public lands in the region.

FRAMES

www.frames.gov/The Fire Research and Management Exchange System (FRAMES) is a virtual collaborative workspace for wildland fire managers and researchers that serves them and others through the exchange of information and tools that are essential for wildland fire and fuel management.

Global Fire Initiative

http://nature.org/initiatives/fire/The Nature Conservancy launched the Global Fire Initiative to help counter threats that fire poses to global conservation. The initiative is fulfilling a leading role in restoring ecosystems where fire dynamics have changed, and recently completed a global assessment that quantifies the scale of the problem. More information about the initiative, its tactics, and its projects is available on this web site.